I was just watching the pre-game for the Mavericks when a Texaco commercial came on which shows a blue 68 getting crushed at a wrecking yard. I'm not sure what to think of this? I don't think this is going to motivate me to buy their gas.

Ya. there is a car insurance ad, I think it's Allstate where a 1st gen vert gets driven off a cliff. They show it in reverse like it's all new again after the accident because they work with you to get it fixed just like it was before. I look at that and think if I sold my car and somebody used it for that, I would be in jail.

Plot: Model Diane accompanies a dentist friend Harry to his country house to join several others for a weekend-long party. On the way there, Harry allows her to take the wheel of his Ferrari and she engages a gang of petty hoods in a 1968 Z/28 in a chase, which ends with the hoods crashing off the road. The gang leader Lep swears vengeance. Up at the house Diane discovers that there are really no other guests and all that Harry wants from her is sex. And then the gang come, invading and smashing up the house.

Death Weekend hits in from the very first scene where an innocent turn at the wheel on Brenda Vaccaro’s part turns into a high tension chase sequence (Ferrari vs 1968 Camaro Z/28) with Don Stroud and his thugs.

With Chroma key and other forms of digital editing, there is no need to be destroying any classic car anymore!

BTW, interesting pieces of movie trivia from that Bullitt chase scene: The in town, downhill part of the chase using multiple cameras and multiple cuts looks like Bullitt passes the same VW Beetle four times!Count the number of hubcaps that fly off the Charger. Must have been a six wheel car...

BTW, interesting pieces of movie trivia from that Bullitt chase scene: The in town, downhill part of the chase using multiple cameras and multiple cuts looks like Bullitt passes the same VW Beetle four times!

Same goes for the white Pontiac Firebird! It's all over San Francisco!

Don't forget the "French Connection"In one scene ,Gene Hackman; a.k.a. "Popeye Doyle"; investigates an accident scene where two young kids are killed.They total out a brand new 1968 SS Camaro. I can tell it's an SS because of the stacked hood louvers. I can't see the tail panel; to see if it's blacked out or not; so it may or may not be a 396. The movie was released around '68 or '69; so the car was new.

Just as I was starting to get over the shock of seeing the 68 destroyed by Texaco, I decided to take my wife to see "American Gangster" at the movies. A couple of hours spent relaxing would be good therapy.

Then it happened! Right in the middle of the movie a perfectly good 65 Shelby Mustang 350H gets blown up and torched. Why must it be pony cars?

Does anybody think the texaso Camaro crush scene is computer animation? Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but toward the end of the wrecking yard scene, when the steel jaws are lifting the Camaro upward, it looks like there's a blur in the stainless steel trim around the back glass - like a computer graphics glitch. I've seen the commercial several times during NASCAR races. Any computer experts out there who have seen this commercial?

Just caught part of an oldie, Eat My Dust. Ron Howard steals an orange 68 from a circle track and romps around town leaving all the cruisers chasing him wrecked. I don't remember ever hearing of the movie in the day, looks to be a low budget 70's car chase movie.

Yeah, that's the one where Ron gave up being Opie, became Hoover, stole the fastest car in town to impress Darlene... But it got him the director gig for Grand Theft Auto, where they destroyed more cars... Andy never should have let Opie get a driver's license...

Apparently, we loved movies back in the 70s as long as a car got wrecked.